lesson 3

in lesson three we learned about coiling:

first you have to flatten out the clay until its half an inch thick, we then took a scalpel and rotating clay wheel and cut the rolled out clay into a circle, we did this by holding the scalpel very still and at a stable pressure while rotating the wheel slowly, this cut threw the clay into a almost perfect circle.
after we had the flat circle we rolled balls of clay into sausage shapes before placing then in a ring shape around the edge of the flat circle, we repeated this process to build the form (going wider or thinner when required)

to join two coils that are at different consistencies (plastic and leather hard) you first have to etch markings along both and then uses a wetter form of clay to bind them together.